The Best Way To Celebrate Women's History Month Is To Stare At This Photo Till March Is Over

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hosted a Women's History Month reception in Statuary Hall Wednesday honoring the women justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Before delivering her remarks, Pelosi shot and shared a selfie with Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, the three women currently serving as associate justices of the Court.

Pelosi expressed gratitude to the justices in her remarks, celebrating "the women who advance the cause of equality at the ballot box, in the board room and before the bar."

"America is built on their shoulders: the groundbreakers, the trailblazers, the women willing to be among the first, the first in our history," she said. "They hold our attention, they ignite our aspirations, they are owed our deepest gratitude."

Pelosi noted that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to join the Supreme Court, was unable to attend the event.

"It takes a lot to be first: a lot of courage, a lot of commanding respect. And today it is our privilege to honor the first women to reach the highest court in the land. The first four women associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States."

The Best Way To Celebrate Women's History Month Is To Stare At This Photo Till March Is Over

Which Women Might Run In 2016?

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

Clinton certainly has the resume to be a strong presidential contender: two terms as the first lady during her husband's popular administration, eight years as a U.S. senator from New York and four as a widely-acclaimed secretary of state under President Barack Obama. Not to mention that she has already mounted a presidential bid once before, during the 2008 Democratic primary.
With quite a following among Democrats -- particularly women -- and an expert campaigner as a husband, Clinton is one of the frontrunners for the 2016 nomination. In fact, if the Iowa caucuses were held today, a <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/11/exclusive-clinton-would-dominate-iowa-caucuses-ppp-149064.html">Public Policy Polling survey</a> found she would win 58 percent of the vote, outstripping the runner-up, Vice President Joe Biden, by a margin of 41 percent.
Now the question is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/opinion/sunday/collins-hillarys-next-move.html?_r=0" target="_blank">whether or not Clinton will decide</a> to throw her hat in the ring in 2016. After her term as secretary of state ends this year, she has declared her intention to take a year off from politics entirely. And after that? Clinton says that she <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/18/hillary-clinton-repeats-no-2016-cant-stand-whinin-about-life-choices/">does not want to run</a> in 2016, but that hasn't quashed hopes to the contrary.
<em>-- Sarah Bufkin</em>